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Lisa Eckstein
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"The Pathways of Desire" is a fascinating story with unexpected turns about a small team of ethnographers studying a culture on another planet.
— Jan 21, 2026 11:50PM
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Lisa Eckstein
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"The Wife's Story" is a nice twist on an old tale.
— Jan 25, 2026 05:02PM
Lisa Eckstein
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"The Eye Altering" is a gorgeous and clever story about the difficulty of adapting to a new planet.
— Jan 20, 2026 01:47PM
Lisa Eckstein
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"The Diary of the Rose" is fascinating, with an emotional plot featuring a well-imagined medical technology and field in which psychoscopists can use equipment to see and analyze a patient's thoughts. (The story, from the early 80s, also contains a small subplot with now-outdated ideas about autism.)
— Jan 16, 2026 03:45PM
Lisa Eckstein
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"SQ" escalates nicely to tell the story of a world gone mad because of an attempt to prevent the world from going mad.
— Jan 09, 2026 05:30PM
Lisa Eckstein
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"The New Atlantis": I was so drawn into this story by the characters, the hope they carry, and the beautiful strangeness.
— Jan 07, 2026 11:46AM
Lisa Eckstein
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Starts off with a short, very Le Guinian story: "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" presents "extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" (animal language), and it's clever, funny, and unexpected.
— Jan 06, 2026 06:13PM
